Water and soil pollution: Palm oil mill effluent (POME) is highly oxygen-demanding, depleting dissolved oxygen in waterways. Mill effluent and fertilizer runoff deplete waterways, degrade soil, and ...

I. Core reasons for the recent rally and subsequent pullback Production regions remain in a seasonal output growth cycle; ...

PETALING JAYA: The RM100mil allocation for oil palm replanting, crop disease control and wildlife conservation must translate ...

Palm oil is everywhere. It sizzles in frying pans, hides in processed foods, thickens cosmetics and fuels engines, and no ...

By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA – Nigeria’s Oil Palm Industry got a boost as the President, National Palm Produce Association of ...

Malaysia's total palm oil stocks rose by 691,835 tonnes, or 24.54 per cent, to 3.51 million tonnes in September this ...

The rapid spread of oil palm plantations and associated high use of fertilizer raises concerns about the emission of nitrous oxide (N 2 O), a powerful greenhouse gas. A new study by an international ...

In this exclusive AgroSpectrum interview, Murli Dhar, Director–Sustainable Agriculture, WWF-India, examines the ...

IIASA researchers have used Sentinel 1 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce a map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and ...

Seventeen climate summits ago, one of the world’s first sustainability efforts in global food production was set up to stop palm oil plantations from destroying the rainforest. Yet more than 80% of ...

India cannot spend Rs 11,040 crore building a domestic oil palm economy while allowing brands to turn the same crop into a ...

Palm oil rose as traders weighed the risk of supply disruptions from forest fires raging across Indonesia, the world’s ...